Back in 2009, Dragon Ball Kai — perhaps you know it as “Dragon Ball Z Kai” outside of Japan — began airing on Fuji TV, ostensibly as a 20-year celebration of the original work, but actually a stop-gap (due to no new Toriyama content) and new indoctrination product. The “refreshed” version of the Dragon Ball …
If you’re a long-time reader/visitor/listener here at Kanzenshuu, there’s a good chance you remember FUNimation’s “You Don’t Know GT!” promotion: a commercial that begins with (intentionally and exaggerated) faded, jumpy footage from the original “DAN DAN Kokoro Hikarte ‘ku” opening theme of the series, which then cuts to the company’s new rap song set to …
Corporate anthems — upbeat pop tracks celebrating the culture and products of a specific company — are inherently cheesy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a great time with them… especially decades removed from relevancy. As a bit of background for the kids, a company called Infogrames secured the sub-license to distribute Dragon Ball …
About 18 years ago, I ran a brief column here on the site called “From the Past Friday” — over its three entries, I shared: Voice samples from an April 2001 poll by FUNimation with four different choices for a Shuu/Shao voice in the company’s re-dub and subsequent continuation of the Dragon Ball television series …
I’m not doing very good on keeping up with the “Friday” portion of “From The Past Friday”, am I? Oh, well…! So here is a fun little doo-diddly you might have heard about either from actually being that old, or perhaps reading about it over in our “Rumor Guide”. Well, I dug up the voice …
Of course I would completely forget what I sat down to update with yesterday, and instead did a completely different update. Oh, well! Here we go! Once again, let us go back to the year 2000. FUNimation was finally getting ready to start up the original Dragon Ball TV series again, and had a stroke …
I have decided to start up a little feature here to keep us all entertained, and will be calling it “From The Past Friday”. Why is that? Well, I am going to be sharing some digital gold from the past each Friday for the next couple of weeks! Let us go back to the year …